Workshops

Power BI User Days in Utrecht has something most events don’t - soul. But beyond the atmosphere, something more interesting is happening: attendees are no longer asking how to build things. They’re asking why, and when, and whether. A maturing community, combined with LLMs absorbing the basic how-to questions, is shifting the conversation toward applied thinking. It’s the shift I’ve been waiting for. Utrecht suggests the appetite is finally there.

For every hour on stage, a hundred hours of preparation. That ratio stopped feeling like a personal failing when the blog became part of the process — not as a publishing platform, but as a thinking tool. A post forces the argument into shape before the slides exist. If the logic holds on the page, it’ll hold on the stage. If it doesn’t, better to find out now than in front of a sold-out room in Utrecht.